The field of quantum valence fluctuations was another older interest which became much more active during this period, partly as a consequence of my own efforts.

One of our brainchildren is a still viable Science and Society course.

I acquired an admiration for Japanese culture, art, and architecture, and learned of the existence of the game of GO, which I still play.

We atheists can argue that, with the modern revolution in attitudes toward homosexuals, we have become the only group that may not reveal itself in normal social discourse.

My belief is based on the fact that string theory is the first science in hundreds of years to be pursued in pre-Baconian fashion, without any adequate experimental guidance.

Of course I am not religious — I don't in fact see how any scientist who thinks at all deeply can be so.

The Nobel Prize gives one the opportunity to take public stands.

The ability to reduce everything to simple fundamental laws does not imply the ability to start from those laws and reconstruct the universe.

Although raised on the farm - my grandfather was an unsuccessful fundamentalist preacher turned farmer - my father and his brother both became professors.

I have also testified repeatedly and published some articles in favor of Small Science.

A souvenir of those years is a small cottage on the cliffs of Cornwall, where Joyce and I spend a spring month every year, hiking and seeing friends.

I took the volume to a table, opened its soft, ivory pages... and fell into it as into a pool during dry season.

For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere.

Truth is a tendency.

God keeps telling us to be not afraid, to go big

Animals were my pets, and the thought of eating my pets freaked me out.

Religious tolerance. No! Zero tolerance for any type of religion.

The sum of the parts equals less than the whole. Or the howl. Or the how. Or the hole.

And when I'm not working, my agent books three auditions a day...I'd rather go to the set and work.

Grime is not like messiness or some fingerprints on a cabinet; it takes a long time to accumulate.

I'm very well acquainted with the seven deadly sins, I keep a busy schedule trying to fit them in.